The string literal can be up to 255 characters long. The character field in a table on other hand can only be 254 characters. I hope this will clear confusion.

>I have only seen this type of error when a string literal is longer than 254 characters. From the context for the message I replied to it should have been obvious that I was reefering to a string literal.
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>Sorry if it was confusing.
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>Einar